Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 548 475 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.48% 14.32% 9.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.81% 54.72% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 448 359 282
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,038 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,280 868 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 15.15% 26.18% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 933 637 560
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.02% +9.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 231 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Essex -9 103 £40,000 - 13
Cambridgeshire -19 101 £57,500 +61.97% 16
Suffolk +30 55 £50,000 -20.00% 19
Bedfordshire -20 30 £37,500 +12.78% 7
Norfolk -13 28 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 103 (18.80%) SharePoint
2 51 (9.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.01%) WordPress
4 4 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 24 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.36%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 200 (36.50%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (22.26%) Entra ID
3 77 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (12.96%) AWS
5 60 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 59 (10.77%) OneDrive
7 41 (7.48%) Azure AI
8 28 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 27 (4.93%) GitHub
10 26 (4.74%) Power Automate
11 25 (4.56%) PowerApps
12 23 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (4.20%) GCP
13 20 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (3.28%) SaaS
15 17 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (2.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 78 (14.23%) Firewall
2 69 (12.59%) DNS
3 55 (10.04%) DHCP
4 49 (8.94%) VPN
5 45 (8.21%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.83%) MQTT
7 16 (2.92%) Wireless
8 13 (2.37%) WAN
9 12 (2.19%) Internet
9 12 (2.19%) LAN
9 12 (2.19%) VLAN
10 11 (2.01%) Network Security
10 11 (2.01%) VoIP
11 8 (1.46%) PBX
11 8 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.73%) DMZ
12 4 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.36%) IP Telephony
13 2 (0.36%) WLAN
14 1 (0.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 57 (10.40%) MongoDB
3 38 (6.93%) Power BI
4 28 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.09%) Tableau
9 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.55%) Redis
10 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.36%) Big Data
11 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.36%) Metadata
11 2 (0.36%) Spatial Data
12 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (4.38%) Git
2 11 (2.01%) JIRA
3 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.73%) Selenium
5 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.55%) git-flow
5 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.36%) GitLab
6 2 (0.36%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.18%) ERwin
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
7 1 (0.18%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.18%) Vite
7 1 (0.18%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 190 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.04%) Finance
3 33 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (2.74%) Law
4 15 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 14 (2.55%) Legal
6 13 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (2.37%) Marketing
6 13 (2.37%) Retail
7 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.64%) Games
9 5 (0.91%) Advertising
9 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.73%) Aviation
10 4 (0.73%) Banking
10 4 (0.73%) Billing
10 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.73%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 137 (25.00%) Developer
2 111 (20.26%) IT Support
3 85 (15.51%) .NET Developer
4 75 (13.69%) Support Engineer
5 72 (13.14%) Senior
6 70 (12.77%) IT Engineer
7 64 (11.68%) Analyst
8 61 (11.13%) IT Support Engineer
9 39 (7.12%) Lead
10 31 (5.66%) Consultant
11 30 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 28 (5.11%) Support Analyst
13 27 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (4.74%) IT Analyst
15 23 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
16 21 (3.83%) Software Engineer
17 20 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 20 (3.65%) Graduate
17 20 (3.65%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (21.53%) .NET
2 89 (16.24%) .NET Core
3 78 (14.23%) ASP.NET
3 78 (14.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 64 (11.68%) RESTful
5 46 (8.39%) CSS
6 43 (7.85%) HTML
7 37 (6.75%) Entity Framework
8 33 (6.02%) React
9 31 (5.66%) Blazor
9 31 (5.66%) ML.NET
10 26 (4.74%) Node.js
11 24 (4.38%) FastAPI
12 23 (4.20%) Terraform
13 22 (4.01%) AngularJS
13 22 (4.01%) Kafka
13 22 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.83%) ASP.NET Web API
14 21 (3.83%) Swagger
14 21 (3.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.48%) Onboarding
2 40 (7.30%) Driving Licence
3 34 (6.20%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.28%) CCTV
11 7 (1.28%) iPhone
11 7 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.09%) Digital TV
12 6 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.91%) BBC
13 5 (0.91%) Legacy Code
13 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 157 (28.65%) Windows
2 86 (15.69%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.74%) Linux
3 15 (2.74%) Windows 10
4 13 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.01%) Android
7 10 (1.82%) macOS
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (21.17%) Agile
2 106 (19.34%) DevOps
3 101 (18.43%) AI
4 97 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (15.51%) CI/CD
6 83 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 83 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 78 (14.23%) Cybersecurity
8 73 (13.32%) Mentoring
9 55 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 50 (9.12%) Machine Learning
11 47 (8.58%) Roadmaps
12 45 (8.21%) ITIL
12 45 (8.21%) Service Delivery
13 43 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (7.66%) Containerisation
15 41 (7.48%) Cloud Security
15 41 (7.48%) Migration
16 40 (7.30%) Customer Service
17 39 (7.12%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (29.38%) SQL
2 136 (24.82%) C#
3 70 (12.77%) Python
4 55 (10.04%) PowerShell
5 46 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 36 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.19%) PHP
8 11 (2.01%) C++
9 10 (1.82%) Bicep
10 8 (1.46%) Java
11 7 (1.28%) Rust
12 5 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.73%) Bash
14 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.55%) Scala
15 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.36%) Go
16 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.18%) R
16 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (13.69%) Degree
2 54 (9.85%) Azure Certification
3 33 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.19%) CCNA
6 12 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.64%) CCNP
10 8 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.28%) CISSP
11 7 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.73%) CEH
13 4 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (0.55%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.66%) QA
2 27 (4.93%) SLA
3 25 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.38%) GDPR
5 22 (4.01%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.55%) NIST
7 8 (1.46%) NCSC
8 7 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.91%) GRC
10 5 (0.91%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.73%) PMO
12 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.18%) HL7
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (25.91%) Active Directory
2 47 (8.58%) Docker
3 34 (6.20%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (15.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (8.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.28%) SCCM
4 4 (0.73%) Ansible
5 3 (0.55%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.55%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Nessus
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 372 (67.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.93%) Cisco
2 27 (4.93%) VMware
3 26 (4.74%) Apple
4 24 (4.38%) Google
5 17 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.37%) Facebook
7 12 (2.19%) ForeScout
7 12 (2.19%) Meraki
8 10 (1.82%) Ubiquiti
9 8 (1.46%) Adobe
10 7 (1.28%) Databricks
10 7 (1.28%) SonicWALL
11 6 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.91%) Sony
12 5 (0.91%) Yahoo!
13 4 (0.73%) Citrix
13 4 (0.73%) ConnectWise
13 4 (0.73%) Draytek
13 4 (0.73%) Veeam